BPD: Borderline Personality Disorder

"Recently, I have come to learn of a disorder that I previously had never heard of. This mental disorder, called Borderline Personality Disorder, is much more common than many people would originally think. According to John G. Gunderson's article, "Borderline Personality Disorder: Ontogeny of a Diagnosis", the total number of BPD cases in the population is twice that of both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder combined. Despite this fact, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) devotes less than two percent of money proportioned to those two illnesses to research on BPD. Basically, very little money is invested in researching this illness.Only a couple decades ago, very little was known about borderline personality disorder. Research has grown, even if the amount is still not desirable to those who know and want to battle BPD. Treatment has improved, even though no medicine has still yet been put on the market thats main purpose of the drug is to treat BPD. There's more hope for those diagnosed with BPD than there was before.It's a lie to say that few have made efforts to raise awareness on this troubling illness. In 2008, Congress designated May as "Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month."Before the book titled I Hate You - Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality written by Jerold J. Kreisman, MD, was first published and released to the general public in 1989, there were virtually no books for the patient or the patient's close family and friends. It was the first book on BPD geared towards the general public and those who had a personal connection to BPD. Since then, several other books have been published.Please join and support me on the great and much needed cause to raise awareness on Borderline Personality Disorder, in hopes of setting a national and possibly international movement that all but forces every institution and organization related to mental health to improve their research on BPD and BPD treatments."